https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dmeqf-b544f6 Special multipart series on the Californian Ideology: the seemingly paradoxical hybrid of New Left and New Right ideas - the synthesis of hippies with yuppies, all tied together with the promise that technology might liberate us. In part one,…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5hycd-b463a8 Synthesising what we learned about neoliberalism (ep74), discussing some concrete examples and drawing out the broader importance of it all. -What gets called 'neoliberal' but actually isn't? And vice-versa? -Was the postwar social-democratic state more racialised than the…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e5s7f-b39a9d On the unexpected origins of neoliberalism. We talk to Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists, about how neoliberals look back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the League of Nations. Why does neoliberalism talk about freedom, but promote order? Is neoliberalism about more…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s8akx-b2dc81 On 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism'. We talk about being pro-technology without being determinist. Does full automation mean the end of work? How do we craft a practical utopian vision? Plus some stuff about wolves and also Brexit. Reading:…
Read More /72/ Frankly Awesome Lefty Conversation ft. Aaron Bastani [UNLOCKED]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5uac4-b29710 [For the full episode, please subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] On the European Parliamentary elections. Is this the day the 20th century truly died? Traditional social democratic and conservative parties took a pounding. The Greens surged. The populists didn't surge -…
Read More Preview: /73/ Eurosads ft. Anton Jäger & Catarina Príncipe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hce9b-b22518 [PREVIEW. For full episode, subscribe.] On 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism'. We talk about being pro-technology without being determinist. Does full automation mean the end of work? How do we craft a practical utopian vision? Plus some stuff about…
Read More Preview: /72/ Frankly Awesome Lefty Conversation ft. Aaron Bastani
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sujee-b159f6 On 'neoliberal order breakdown syndrome' and the media. Glenn Greenwald talks to us about Russiagate and fake news, and is unimpressed with same old propaganda. We discuss about left-wing self-criticism, Bolsonaro and transgression, and ask how to be sceptical…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-shup4-afdd43 On migration and identity. The question of migration and borders has become increasingly fraught across different societies. Why has immigration become the means through which grievance is expressed? Where has 'white' identity come from? And how durable is identity…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6hz5v-af4d12 On Peterson vs Zizek. Did the 'debate of the century' live up to its billing? More importantly, what explains Peterson's appeal - and Zizek's? Why did the debate have such an odd, out of time feel? References: The Fool…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ayisy-ae607b On Modern Monetary Theory. Doug Henwood joins us to discuss whether MMT offers a fiscal alternative for Left governments. What is monetary sovereignty and do all states have it? What are MMT's prospects for states as different as the…
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